Playing-ball.



P ATEN'I'ED JUNE 16, 1903.

0. B. ELLIOTT.

PLAYING BALL.

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UNITED STATES Patented Tune 16, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

PLAYING-BALL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 731,026, dated June 16, 1903. Application filed December 3, 1902. Serial No. 133,668. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES B. ELLIOTT, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of Riverside, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Playing-Balls, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in pl. yin g-balls, applicable more particularly to golf-balls.

The object of my invention, among other things, is to provide golf and other playing balls of good quality at a comparatively small cost; and to this end my invention consists in winding the interior or body of the ball of fibrous material-such as yarn, strips of textile or woven fabric, or the likethe same being impregnated with rubber material which in winding the ball is stretched with and by stretching the fibrous material. The body of the ball may be formed by winding the said material upon itself or it may be wound upon a wooden or other core. The filaceous or filamentous material selected should possess elastic properties, and by preference this material is first saturated with a solution of indiarubber, so as to become more or less homogeneous with the fibrous base, and in winding the ball the fibrous material and rubber are stretched to the limitthat is, the same is stretched to the extent allowed by the fibrous material or to any degree short of the breaking-point. In this way the ball can be wound with great facility and at the same time with practical uniformity throughout and without overstretching the material composing the body of the ball.

In the accompanying drawings, to which reference is made and which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a sectional view of a golf-ball made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 shows a portion of tape or strip of which the body of the ball is wound, and Fig. 3 shows a portion of a fibrous yarn of which the body of the ball may be wound.

In the drawings, 2 designates the interior body of the ball; 3, the core, which may be used or not, as desired; 4, an outer shell or cover, preferably of hard india rubber or gutta-percha.

5 designates a strip or tape of textile or woven fabric, and 6 the yarn or string which .may be used in place of the strip or tape.

'In preparing the strip or tape 5 or yarn 6 I impregnate the same with soft india-rubber or similar elastic material, and for this purpose I prefer a pure india-rubber solution dissolved by naphtha, benzene, or other solvent. Into this solution I immerse this textile material (the strip or yarn) and after removal allow the same to dry. The textile material may be immersed any suitable number of times according to the thickness of coating desired. In winding the ball the material is stretched to practically the limit of the textile or twisted fabric, and the winding is continued in this way until the proper size is reached. Then the outside coveris applied in the usual way.

In selecting the textile fabric I prefer a strip of stockinet or other very elastic fabric, and when yarn is used I prefer loosely-twis ted woolen yarn but I do not limit myself to these materials.

By my invention the woven or twisted ma terial is elastic, but less elastic than the rubber incorporated with it, and is of sufficient strength so that when stretched to the limit it will not break in Winding, but the winding will be uniform and the india-rubber will be uniformly distributed throughout the whole body of the ball. In other words,when stretching of the strand occurs the bulk of the strand (the width or diameter) lessens, and if the stretching is not uniform the building up by the winding will be irregular and the density of the ball will not be uniform. By my inven-- tion the stretching is regulated to a nicety throughout and the winding is uniform, and the density of the ball is uniform and the indiarubber is uniformly distributed throughout the body of the ball.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A playing-ball comprising a main body composed of elastic fabric impregnated with soft india-ru'bber or similar material stretched and wound to proper size, substantially as described.

2. A playing-ball comprising a main body composed of woven elastic fabric impregnated with soft india-rubber and stretched ai1d Wound to proper size, substantially as described.

A playing-ball comprising a main body 5 composed'of stockinet impregnated with soft india-rubber and stretched and Wound to proper size, substantially as described.

4. A playing-ball consisting of a main bodycomposed of elastic fabric-impregnated with soft india-rubber stretched and wound to 10 proper size and a cover, substantially as described.

. CHARLES E. ELLIOTT. \Vitnesses:

H. A. WEST,

MATTHEW BURNS. 

